How to Grade for Learning: Linking Grades to Standards, Fourth Edition by Ken O’Connor
The 4th edition of Ken O’Connor’s best-selling How to Grade for Learning provides eight guidelines for good grading, offers recommendations for practical applications, and gives suggestions for implementing more effective grading practices.
Classroom assessment and grading should help students grow and develop to their full potential. However, making real and lasting changes to grading practices requires both knowledge and willpower. Ken O’Connor presents the latest research on motivation, mindset, learning styles, and beliefs about fairness to inform this new edition.
The Continuing Educator Podcast, Episode 5: What’s in Your Gradebook?
The Continuing Educator is a professional learning podcast by NWEA, a not-for-profit research and assessment provider. The podcast discusses challenges impacting classrooms, schools and systems, and explores strategies to help educators. The Continuing Educator podcast is available on all major podcast platforms, including Apple, Google, and YouTube. For more information, check out NWEA Launches “The Continuing Educator” Podcast.
Get past the knowing-doing gap and confidently implement standards-based learning. This book offers a comprehensive look at what standards-based learning looks like in action, from creating formative assessments to using data to inform instruction to transitioning to standards-based grading systems. Instead of comparing students to each other, standards-based learning compares students’ proficiency to performance standards and education targets. Each chapter offers readers a well-thought-out action plan for implementation and effective strategies for communicating with students and parents about the classroom changes that will occur during the transition.
The Grade Cleanse: A Roadmap to Healthy Grading by Danny Hill and Garnet Hillman
Grade Cleanse presents a six-step process to uncover what lies within traditional grading practices so that you can reflect, make changes, and improve! This unique approach allows you to move at your own pace. Each “grade cleanse” is accompanied by a series of challenges and “how-to” baby steps. Grading can be a meaningful process that supports reflection and growth. Cleansed grades are healthy grades, and healthy grades support learning!
Katie Budrow 